Another of those wonderful, massive New York City thunderstorms is under way. It started ratcheting itself as the quietest point in Liszt's Les Preludes (the 1937 Polydor recording by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Paul van Kempen, released in a very good transfer on Tahra) was playing on the stereo. The storm added gratuitous but welcome special effects, showing that once in a while these sonic juxtapositions are serendipitous.
